CFP: The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America

The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America will be held at the University of California, Riverside, October 17–October 19, 2025. Papers on any aspect of Leibniz’s philosophy will be considered and should have a reading time of approximately 45 minutes. Commentators will be paired with accepted submissions.

Proposals that explore connections between Leibniz’s thought and other non-canonical early modern philosophers, especially women, are particularly welcome. Papers on figures within the loosely Leibnizian orbit, including (but not limited to) Masham, Conway, Wolff, Du Châtelet, etc., will also be considered.

Our Keynote Speaker will be Julia Borcherding, Associate Professor, University of Cambridge, whose work engages a variety of early modern figures including Leibniz, Du Châtelet, Cavendish, and Conway, among others. Julia’s talk is tentatively titled Missed Connections: Leibniz and the “English Ladies”

Submissions from graduate students and early career scholars will be given special consideration. Along these lines, the LSNA may be able to offer some travel funding to accepted submissions from graduate students and early career scholars, who do not have sufficient funding from their home institutions, in order to offset the costs of attending the meeting.

Submissions should take the form of abstracts of approx. 500 words in length, prepared for anonymous review. They should be submitted, as attachments to emails in PDF format, to Adam Harmer ([email protected]). The deadline for the receipt of submissions is May 1, 2025. Authors will be notified by June 1 of the program committee’s decision. Selected authors will be expected to send complete drafts of their presentations to their commentators by September 1, 2025.